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Old 09-09-2015, 12:55 PM   #25 (permalink)
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reduce, reuse, recycle... a boat tail?

Lookee what I found in the garage!





The tail off last year's 2007 Honda Civic winter beater!
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...dan-31498.html

It's a surprisingly close fit to the Prius, but it'll definitely need some nip & tuck surgery to get it just right. And I'll need to put a receiver on the car to mount it.

Despite the disappointingly small improvement it made on the Civic, it should work better on the Prius with its e-CVT.

A project for later this fall, anyway.
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